CBI TO QUIZ KOLKATA POLICE CHIEF

New Delhi, Feb. 7: Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar will be questioned by Central Bureau of Investigation in Shillong on February 9 in connection with the multi-crore Saradha chitfund scam, officials said Thursday, two days after the Supreme Court directed him to “faithfully” cooperate with the investigation.

The CBI wants to question Kumar, a 1989-batch IPS officer, as he was heading the SIT formed by West Bengal government to probe Saradha and other similar ponzi scheme cases, they said.

The CBI has attached 10 officers from its Delhi, Bhopal and Lucknow units to its Kolkata office, which is probing the chit-fund scam cases, till February 20 to provide additional manpower during questioning of high-profile suspects, including the Kolkata police chief.

A team led by Superintendent of Police Jagroop S. Gusinha from the special unit in New Delhi will camp in Kolkata, an official order said.